How Wrestling Created The BEST Football Players | NFL Films Presents 

Well said!!

Exactly

Facts bro

I played both sports... wrestling was hard asf compared to football. Our practices wre basically fightclub in the 90s and you wre so exhausted that getting hurt was the least of your worries.. Football felt like a breeze in comparison and the toughest players all wrestled as well.

I knew a football dude, defensive back, who did wrestling & track. Tough mfka, only cornerback who head on tackled bigger guys, should’ve been a safety

@@rabbitscryptos7757wrestling was right after football. We went and won a state championship in football and 1 week later I was at a dual meet. I was sooooo out of shape it wasn’t even funny. Haha. Crazy how you can play a whole season of football then can’t last 2 rounds in a match. Lol

@@MrAlexmiele8910 yep... football practice was a breeze conditioning wise to wrestling. everyone who is serious about football regardless of position should also wrestle imo. our football team placed third in the highest division in Georgia in the late 90s and our star running back was my arch rival on the mat and he went on to start at cornerback for the Georgia bulldogs after one year at RB his freshman season and then got drafted in the top 3 rounds to the San Francisco 49ers and had a good NFL career.

@@rabbitscryptos7757 that’s wild man. Being from Maine, we didn’t see that quite as often haha. My arch rival from wrestling is in jail for selling drugs to kids at a high school that he worked at. 🤦‍♂️

Cael Sanderson was 159-0 never lost a match in college

​@michaeljames5881 what does that have to do with his record......

@@MC-ep8cu well let’s see numb nuts… The first comment said “76-1 is nutty”. Which it is. I responded back stated there’s actually a record even nuttier Cael Sanderson… maybe go back to your local community college and do some reading comprehension. Good day

@@michaeljames5881shocking news one of the best wrestlers of all time and an Olympic gold medalist is better on wrestling than a football player who also wrestled in high school

Facts. Especially when your coach is a former drill sergeant 😭

someone with no grappling training will always immediately fold to a high school wrestler much less the higher levels. they don't have any sense for leverage nor the muscle memory required that any martial art demands much less something like wrestling

Did he KO you from the bottom lol

Just showed my son this video before wrestling practice in the parking lot. It had him turned up 🤣😂🤣😂💪🏾❤️

Roddy was an exceptional wrestler at JIHS.

Stephen Neal, world and NCAA champ that didn't even play football in college Carlton Haselrig, record 6x NCAA championships, also didn't play in college but made the Pro Bowl

@@chuckgreen3629 It makes such a difference.

Carlton Hesslrig. Six time NCAA wrestling Champ. Many years with the Steelers.

Man have you ever seen fight videos? Not everyone can punch either 😂

lol wrestling grappling is innate very organic.

@@RLS_91 Right and many good wrestlers can't punch for crap. I've seen it many times with my own eyes.

@@MbisonBalrog yeah I disagree. Most people are clueless when it comes to grappling.

It's more or less the complete opposite. Grappling is very natural, Nothing natural about getting your face caved in.

Just sounds condescending

yea i mean one of the greatest defensive players of all time can condescend you all he wants lmao@@KD_55

Its cringe. Hes a preacher and a murderer. Go figure.

I’ve always said this, he can be so extra sometimes

Glad I’m not the only one

Be the same other way around. Plus wrestlers have weight classes.

That first day is always terrible 😂

How wrestling help you chase down RB and WR. The leg takedown execution in wrestling be different. In Football it’s one and done. You miss you miss. In wrestling you can grind it out

@@MbisonBalrog that’s just one situation. If you’re a linemen and you wrestle, you get plenty of reps working on leverage, base, hand fighting, and head positioning. I never even played football but my teammates (some who play D1 football now) said wrestling helped. Also these NFL players said it helped

​@@MbisonBalrog No you can't. There are small margins of error in wrestling. We see guys let go of guys in football all the time. They don't have that grip strength or wrestling strength in general. They can't execute a tackle. Wrestling requires technique and mental and physical toughness. Perfect for football.

You can develop all that by just drilling. You dont need go join wrestling team. The tech is different anyways. Wrestling just keeps you busy if you cant play hockey or basketball.@@ChrisTalksMMA

@@MbisonBalrog whatever you say. You’re clearly not gonna be open to change. Just don’t listen to Ray Lewis, Tristan Wirfs, Sean McDermot, Warren Sapp, etc

LOL that was my experience too 😂

Haha

Chad Greenway was a dog 💪

Way too big. Cant move well enough

Sumo is really hand heavy, which is theoretically good for something like O line, but sumo is also a system very akin to sport fencing in that the footwork is predominantly engage-disengage oriented and that really doesn't lend itself to things like block commitment. Those are hard habits to break and weird muscle groups to re-train... there's a lot of injury potential in trying to unlearn and redevelop muscle memory below the knees. Just learning to run in cleats is a big deal once you're over about 20. And we're talking about those ticky-tacky lingering sprains and partial tears that football is already known to be bad for and prone to. It's a whole new set of concepts that are sorta philosophically at odds with sumo doctrine. Also, I'm pretty sure that Sumo wrestlers make a lot of money. They are salaried club employees. A middling guy gets like 3 grand a month and an apartment, and that's in addition to prize money, purses, and tournament appearance payments. Thus, the average sumo can expect to net an extra 100 grand or so a year. I think there's a good reason we don't see a bunch of football linemen trying to enter sumo tournaments to chase quick money, and I think it's probably a skillset and doctrine thing.

@@PRichards1981that’s a lie

It worked out well in The Replacements 😂

Hidetora Hanada, 6'1" 280lbs plays for Colorado State. Not a massive guy. He became a sumo Yokozuna.

For me it was track, but everybody knows u don’t mess with wrestlers

@@dweez4703 Track was big I did track too.

I'm from western NJ. We had to wrestle too haha! But I played football in college. My son ran track and football in HS

Have you ever even played football?

@@MbisonBalrog Yes in high school same level as you

played both sports... wrestling is by far the tougher sport. a bunch of effin physchos as well as coaches. at least where i wrestled at. our football team was voted best in the 90 in 92 as well and we produced P5 D1 talent every year.

LOL no way. In US HS wrestling has lot of kid friendly and safe rules. American Football is a lot rougher with higher chance of injury. In HS wrestling you cannot even pick up the opponent and slam hard. @@rabbitscryptos7757

Not just any high school, Poway is a powerhouse wrestling school in CA. Like having DC coaching Gilroy HS, having Neal coach Poway is almost unfair, those guys are unreal.

Most wrestlers are humble and self-sacrificing. Neal is giving back to our sport and should be commended. Fantastic dude.

3:26 they didn’t do it for Bill Belichick though lol

D-line Should be a Freestyle or Folkstyle

How wrestling is slower paced? You get 3 rnds to gain and preserve lead. Be poor strategy to attack like at scrimmage line

Show me on the doll where "wrestling" touched you.

In NJ football played in fall.

Wrestling is bad for American youth

The 215 lb weight class would be a good fit for a linebacker, and the 285 lb weight class would be a good fit for a D-Line

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@@ericrodriguez5499 Hulkamania was cool for us kids growing up in the 80s and 90s and all, but that's still not wrestling.

Yes it is. Its Professional wrestling. Different thing obviously but both are called wrestling and have the same origin.

@@Yoni123 Only the version that's real is Wrestling. The scripted version is either called Rasslin, or "That Thing Hulk Hogan Does."

It's called Professional Wrestling actually@@dionr1168